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Panel highlights proven vehicle safety technologies — AEB, impaired-driving prevention, occupant detection — and urges faster adoption
Summary
Committee witnesses and members flagged automatic emergency braking (AEB), impaired-driving prevention technology, occupant detection for hot-car prevention, and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) as proven tools to reduce fatalities, and urged NHTSA to finish rulemakings and adopt minimum performance standards.
Witnesses at the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing described specific vehicle technologies with the potential to reduce crashes and urged faster regulatory adoption.
Dr. David Harkey of IIHS said AEB systems have demonstrated substantial safety benefits: his group’s testing showed roughly a 50% reduction in front-to-rear vehicle strikes and a 27% reduction in vehicle-to-pedestrian incidents at lower speeds for the systems they have…
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